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Page 17-THE NEWS May, 1985 NC B'nai B’rith Sponsors Institute of Judaism The 38th annual Institute of Judaism at Wildacres will be held August 26-29,1985. The theme of the Institute will be “The Jewish Family In Transition.” Featured will be two outstand ing guest lecturers. Dr. Robert Chazan is a graduate of Columbia College (1958) and recipient of an M.H.L. and S’micha as Rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary (1962). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia U. He has been a professor of Jewish history at Ohio State U., Tel Aviv U. and at present is at Queens College, NY. He has written several books on medieval Jewish history. Egon Mayer, a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, is also president of the Association for the Sociological Study of Jewry. Dr. Mayer is the author of numerous articles and research reports and serves as consultant to several national and local Jewish organizations. Born in Switzerland and rais ed in Budapest, Hungary, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1956. He received his BA from Brooklyn College his MA from New School for Social Research, and his Ph.D. in sociology from Rutgers U. Chairman of the Institute is Phil Datnoff, Hickory, NC, and reservations chairperson is Ruth Feldman, Asheville, NC. Cost includes room, nine meals (from dinner on Monday, through lunch on Thursday) and the lectures. ~—-—RESERVATIONS. — (Make checks payable to: WILDACRES INSTITUTE II1985) Please enter my reservation for persons listed below. I enclose DEPOSIT OF $ _($25.00 per person) I I I enclose FULL PAYMENT OF $ ^($140.00 per person) | I I Name Name. ($70.00 per person 40 yrs. of age and under) Address First Last .Address. First Last Phone Number Pleaw mail chfck and rmer»alion for the AukuhI 26-29 Inslitule to: Ruth Fridman. Reservations Chairman, B'nai B'rith InHtilute II. P.O. Box 8607, Asheville. VC. 28804 World Beat cont’d from p. 4 bis, who will be consulted in advance. JERUSALEM (JTA) - Yad Vashem, the heroism and Holocaust remembrance aut hority, will publish the full history of the Holocaust in 25 volumes. NEW YORK (JTA) - An organization combatting the Arab boycott of Israel will launch a drive to expand trade relations between Japan and Israel which have suffered because of “widespread com pliance by Japanese com panies with the dictates of the Arab boycott.” Japanese companies pre sently refrain from selling con sumer items such as auto mobiles to Israel and that Japanese imports of Israeli go^s are very small. • ATLANTA (JTA) - A Holocaust project at Eniory University, which specializes in interviewing American ser vicemen and servicewomen who were in the Nazi death camps within the first two weeks of liberation, has receiv ed a $15,000 grant from the Atlanta Jewish Federation. University officials said that more than 110 interviews have been taped, 16 video-tapes have been prepared and several pamphlets brought back by soldiers have been published. TEL AVIV (JTA) - More than a third of the Arab work force in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were employed in Israel during 1984, mainly in construction and agriculture, the Central Bureau of Statis tics reported. • GENEVA (JTA) - Israel has offered to share with drought-stricken African countries its skills in making the maximum use of limited water resources to grow food. “Israel feels duty-bound to share the fruits of its ex perience with African friends.” • TEL AVIV (JTA) - The citizens of Saudi Arabia may soon be eating strictly kosher hot dogs made in Israel, though they will not be label ed as such. A European mid dleman has offered to buy a large consignment from the Soglowek Sausage and Meat Factory in Nahariya. ULUB Jewish Books in Review is a service of the IWB lewish Book Council, 15 East 2bth St., New York, N.V. 10010 JLUB Menachem Begin Man of Paradox Begin: The Haunted Prophet. Eric Silver. Random House, Inc., 201 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022. 1984. 278 pages. $17.95. Reviewed by J. Robert Moskin Feelings run so high — both pro . and con — about Menachem Begin’s effect on today’s Jews, that Eric Silver, a British journalist in Jerusalem for a decade, has achieved something unusual. He has written an honest biography of Begin; he has neither crucified nor glorified him. This is how Silver sums up his subject: “Menachem Begin governed Israel for six years and three months, which made him the longest-serving Prime Minister after the founding father David Ben-Gurion. He revealed himself as a complex, but not a mysterious, man, a paradox but not a puzzle: an unrepentant terrorist who won the Nobel Peace Prize, then launched another war. A democrat and an autocrat. A courtly rabble-rouser, Polish gentleman and Levantine cult hero. A man of honor with whom it was wise to read the small print. A conspirator who found it hard to keep a secret.” Begin personifies a fanatic and militant strain in Jewish and Israeli reaction to the world. He believed single- mindedly all his adult life in the restoration of his vision of the'Jews’ ancient biblical land. And he repeatedly was ready to kill to achieve that goal. But the book’s subtitle—“The Haunted Prophet”—is ridicu lous; Begin was certainly haunted but hardly a prophet. He was born in Brest- Litovsk in Poland in 1913 and the midwife who delivered him was, by strange coincidence, Ariel Sharon’s grandmother. Begin’s militancy was fueled by the Zionist Vladimir Jabotinsky, whom Begin call ed “his master” and whose Betar youth movement he joined when he was fifteen. In 1940 Begin was arrested by the Soviet NKVD secret police. His wife Aliza escaped to Palestine. After nine months of prison and inter rogation, he was shipped to the Gulag. He was saved when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union and the Soviet and Polish governments agreed to r I I I I I I I ncvi ■ COUPON MUST ACCOMPANY ORDER ■■■■ 50% DISCOUNT ALL DRY CLEANING Silk Not lndutod Min. 5.00 ORDER AFTER DISCOUNT B-KLEEN CLEANERS & LAUNDRY DftlVC-THRU WINDOWS BEAUTIFUL SHIRTS-SOUTHEAST CHARLOTTE'S FINEST COUNTIYSBi SHOFnMOONm HWY.S1 ncvui SOUTMPAK SHARON SHOmNOONTIR MATTNMrS «710MONROflO ATSAIOSH).N. n I I I I I I I lAINTRil SfAMSnttSS ON DOTY IVMYDAY NOW OPIN NIW LOCATION | RAINTRil release all Polish prisoners to join the war against Germany. Begin arrived in Jerusalem in 1942 as a private in the Polish army. By the end of 1943, he was on leave and the commander of the dissident underground Irgun Zvai Leumi. From hiding, he fought the British and the Haganah, the armed force of the Jewish Agency. When the Haganah helped the British hunt down Irgun fighters. Silver says, “Menachem Begin never forgave and never forgot.” Silver details the role he played in the blowing up of the King David Hotel in 1946; the hanging of two British serge ants in 1947; the massacre at Deir Yassin in April 1948, gmd the sinking of the Irgun eu^ms ship Altalena that June off Tel Aviv. Once the State of Israel was born, Begin spent the next three decades in very vocal op position, insisting the Jewish state include all of Jerusalem and both banks of the Jordan River. He served in a unity government briefly during the Six Day War of 1967, but Silver’s suggestions that Prime Minister of Levi Eshkol yielded to Begin in making Moshe Dayan Minister of Defense and in deciding to conquer the Old City of Jerusalem are wild exaggera tions. Almost incredibly, Begin came to power in 1977. The next six years saw the rise of enormous inflation, the inten sified Israeli settlement of the West Bank, the divisive war in Lebanon, and the massacre in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps. It also saw, more positively, the stunning visit of Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem and the signing of the Camp David accords. Silver waffles on Begin’s responsibility for the decep tions and decisions of the war in Lebanon. He says, “There were well-attested (and embar rassing) cases where Begin seems not to have known what was going on.” And during the refugee camp massacre by the Phalangists, under the eye of the Israel Defense Forces, Silver writes. Begin might have intervened if his able military secretary, Brigadier- General Ephraim Poran, had not resigned in 1981. Silver says, “He would have ensured that the Prime Minister did not have to learn about (the massacre) from the BBC.” Neither statement has the buck stop with the prime minister. Begin resigned in 1983, ex hausted, feeling betrayed, mourning his wife’s death, in the grip, according to Silver, of “manic depression.” Silver adds, “On 15 September, the day (Begin) sent his resigna tion letter to President Chaim Herzog, the IDF buried its five hundred and eighteenth fallen soldier of the Lebanese war.” Silver concludes, “The Israel Menachem Begin created in his own image was more narrowly Jewish, more aggressive and more isolated. Socisd and religious tensions were closer to the surface.” This biography presents a fgiir and readable assessment of the obstinate leader who did so much to bring Israel to her present crises. • J. Robert Moskin is the author of Among Lions, the story of the battle for Jerusalem in 1967, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1983, and a member of the board of The Jerusalem Foundation. 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